<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Cynthia,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can also use an empty line as a delimiter, and ignore any lines starting with '#' or '%' if you're only interested in the objects themselves.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is an example parser in the Whois codebase:</div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/6073451f5b250d97edc0bde5f540d949a23cd491/whois-rpsl/src/main/java/net/ripe/db/whois/common/io/RpslObjectFileReader.java" class="">https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/6073451f5b250d97edc0bde5f540d949a23cd491/whois-rpsl/src/main/java/net/ripe/db/whois/common/io/RpslObjectFileReader.java</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class="">Ed Shryane</div><div class="">RIPE NCC</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Dec 2020, at 15:45, Cynthia Revström via db-wg <<a href="mailto:db-wg@ripe.net" class="">db-wg@ripe.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">for my use case it's mainly a convenient object delimiter.</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 14:15 Mahesh Aggarwal <<a href="mailto:maggarwal@ripe.net" class="">maggarwal@ripe.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class="">Hi Cynthia,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for you email.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have investigated, of 1.7M lines in the aut-num split file, the last tag appears after 1.3M lines. This is because not all aut-num objects contain tags.</div><div class="">I confirm that split files are well formed and no tags are missing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are currently 22997 out of 36481 autumn objects in split file for which tag information is available.</div><div class="">Also tagging information is available for roughly 63% of ‘ASSIGNED' autumn objects.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We released the tag beta feature in 2013 but stopped automatically updating the tags some time later. </div><div class="">So all the tags that are present in split files are automatically generated during that time period and objects created/updated after that have the tags information missing in split files.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We need to ask the community whether we resume the tagging of objects or remove the functionality all together.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is tagging information is useful for you? We can put forward a case to the community for resuming this functionality.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Mahesh</div><div class="">RIPE NCC</div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Dec 2020, at 09:27, Edward Shryane via db-wg <<a href="mailto:db-wg@ripe.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">db-wg@ripe.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">Hi Cynthia,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The DB team will investigate further and let you know.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class="">Ed Shryane</div><div class="">RIPE NCC</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Dec 2020, at 03:49, Cynthia Revström via db-wg <<a href="mailto:db-wg@ripe.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">db-wg@ripe.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi DB-WG,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I just noticed that the (at the time of writing, serial <span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class="">49363913</span>) latest aut-num split db file (possibly elsewhere too) sort of just seems to break at some point.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The lines like below simply stop appearing:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">% Tags relating to 'AS3333'<br class="">% RIPE-REGISTRY-RESOURCE<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here's a section where you can see it happening: <a href="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bitcynth/d81688c6b7587e0179d55b8324535ff4/raw/57fcf2829967c0a9c1039180b2fd3e2a2cbb7e09/ripedb.txt" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bitcynth/d81688c6b7587e0179d55b8324535ff4/raw/57fcf2829967c0a9c1039180b2fd3e2a2cbb7e09/ripedb.txt</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any clue why this is occurring? or is it just a bug?</div><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">- Cynthia</div></div></div></div> </div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>